Last Updated: 6/3/04
The Communitarian Vision
International Communal Studies Association
Eighth International Conference
June 28-30, 2004
The Amana Colonies, Iowa, USA
Program of Events
Monday, June 28th
Registration, Amana Heritage Museum, 12:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Welcome & Opening Remarks, Auditorium, Amana Heritage Museum, 3:00 - 3:30 p.m.
Tim Miller, President, ICSA
Plenary I: Amana at 150 . . . Or Is It 300? Auditorium, 3:30 - 5:00 p.m.
Moderator: Jon Andelson, Grinnell College
Panelists:
Jon Andelson, “An Overview of the Community’s History”
Janet Zuber, Amana, “The Pietist Heritage and Inspirationism”
Peter Hoehnle, Iowa State Univ., “The Communal Period and Reorganization”
Emilie Hoppe, Amana, “The Amana Church Today”
Mike Shoup, Amana, “The Amana Society, Inc. Today”
Lanny Haldy, Amana Heritage Society, “The Amana Community Today”
Opening Reception, Amana Heritage Museum, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Dinner on your own (see registration packet for dining suggestions)
Tuesday, June 29th
Registration, Amana Heritage Museum, 8:30 a.m.- 5:00 p.m.
Session I 9:00 - 10:30 a.m.
(A) Youth Movements and the Search for Community Auditorium
Chair: Pearl Bartelt, Association of American Colleges & Universities
Eli Avrahami, Yad Tabenkin Institute & Kibbutz Palmachim (Israel), “Idealists in Search of the Commune”
Daniel Rosolio, Haifa University & West Galil College (Israel), “Communes and Youth Movements: A Social or Psychological Phenomenon, or Both?”
Yuval Dror, Tel Aviv University, Oranim & Yad Tabenkin, “Communal Groups
and Urban Kibbutzim Research Project- Themes, Sites and Dimensions
of Analysis”
(B) A Guide to American Utopian Literature: East Church
Creating A Reading List
Chair: Peter Hoehnle, Iowa State University
Marlyn Klee, Adelphi University, “Oneida Perfectionists”
Elizabeth De Wolfe, University of New England, “The Shakers”
Peter Hoehnle, Iowa State University, “Amana”
Kathleen Fernandez, Ohio Historical Society, Zoar Village State Memorial, “Zoar”
(C) State and Community West Church
Chair: Jan Bang, Solborg Camphill Village (Norway)
Nir Tsuk, University of Cambridge (U.K.), “Community, State and Utopia: National Policy and Local Prosperity in England and Israel”
Baruch Kanari, Yad Tabenkin & Tel-Hai Academic College, “Garden-Cities in
Eretz, Israel”
Adrienne Lamberti, Iowa State University, “Blurred Vision: Agricultural
Communities Under Fire”
Break & Refreshments, Amana Church 10:30 - 11:00 a.m.
Plenary II: The End of the Kibbutz? Auditorium, 11:00 - 12:30
Moderator: Yaacov Oved, Yad Tabenkin & Tel Aviv University
Daniel Rosolio, Haifa University & West Galil College (Israel), “A Macro-Level View of the Kibbutz Crisis”
Michal Palgi, Emek Yezreel College (Israel), “A Longitudinal Perspective of Value Changes – The Case of the Kibbutz”
Yechezkel Dar, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, “Communality, Rationalization, and Distributive Justice: Changing Evaluation of Work in the Israeli Kibbutz”
Menachem Topel, Yad Tabenkin, “‘Identity’ Politics Within and Around the
Kibbutz”
Lunch on your own 12:30 - 2:00 p.m. (see registration packet for dining suggestions)
Session II 2:00 - 3:30 p.m.
(A) Community and Ecology Auditorium
Chair: Bill Metcalf, Griffith University (Australia)
Ina Meyer Stoll, ZEGG (Germany), “Global Ecovillage Network, Ecovillages and
International Communities: The Learning and Living Centers of the Future”
Michael Livni, Kibbutz Lotan, “Kibbutz Lotan: Eco-Zionism and Kibbutz”
(B) New Theoretical Approaches to Intentional Community East Church
Chair: Susan Love Brown, Florida Atlantic University
Susan Love Brown, “Revitalization and Community: Building on a Theory”
Lawrence Foster, Georgia Institute of Technology, “Between Two Worlds:
Community, Liminality, and the Development of Alternative Marriage
Systems among the American Shakers”
Heather Van Wormer, Michigan State University, “The Ties that Bind: Ideology,
Material Culture and Intentional Communities”
(C) Healing, Philosophy and Vision West Church
Chair: Dan McKanan, St. John’s University (Minnesota, USA)
Andrew Gemmell, Ontario, Canada, “Jean Vanier: The Healing Community”
David Connell, Ontario, Canada, “Philosophical Reflection on the
Communitarian Vision”
Dan McKanan, St. John’s University (Minnesota, USA), “Self-Unfolding Communitarian Vision: Brook Farm’s Challenge for Contemporary Communities”
(D) Walking Tour of Village of Amana
Sign up for tour at the registration table. Tour leaves from West end of Amana Church building.
Break & Refreshments, Amana Church 3:30 - 4:00 p.m.
Session III 4:00 - 5:30 p.m.
(A) Community Videos Auditorium
ZEGG (30 minutes): Achim Ecker, ZEGG
Damanhur (40 minutes): Lepre Viola, Damanhur Federation
(B) Parenting in Community East Church
Chair: Max Stanton, Brigham Young University- Hawai’i
Bron Ingoldsby, Brigham Young University, and, Suzanne Smith, Washington
State University, “Hutterite Parenting Practices”
Erella Lamdan, Kibbutz Negba and Achva Academic College of Education, “Motherhood in the Kibbutz: Three Generations at the End of the 1990s”
(C) Challenge and Change in Community West Church
Chair: Tim Hodgdon, Duke University
Marvin Ceynar, New Hope, Minnesota, “Four Historic Changes in Amana: Lay
Preaching in the Early 1960s”
Laird Schaub, Fellowship for Intentional Community, “Four Challenges for
Community”
Social Hour & Dinner, Ox Yoke Inn, 6:30 p.m.
International Communities Fair, following dinner
The International Communities Fair offers all conference participants the opportunity to share resources and information, sell products and books, and be available to answer questions about your community. If you would like to have a table at the International Communities Fair, please contact Lanny Haldy at amherit@juno.com.
Wednesday, June 30th
Registration, Amana Heritage Museum, 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Session IV 9:00-10:30 a.m.
(A) Kibbutz Studies Auditorium
Chair: Marlyn Klee, Adelphi University
Aryei Fishman, Bar-Ilan University, The Religious Roots of the Secular Kibbutz
Shula Keshet, Kibbutz Givat Brenner & Kibbutzim College of Education, “The
Realities of Pioneering Life as Fuel for Fantasy: Poetics in Children’s
Literature in the Early Kibbutz, 1930-1950"
Arza Avrahami, Oranim Academic College of Education & Kibbutz Palmachim,
“Gender and the Effect of Self-Selection in Higher Education: The Case of Kibbutz Young Adults”
(B) Ethics & Practices in the Study of Community East Church
Chair: Lawrence Foster, Georgia Institute of Technology
Bill Metcalf, Griffith University (Australia), “Communicating about Intentional
Communities”
Susan Love Brown, Florida Atlantic University, “The Ethics of Doing Research in Contemporary Communities”
Karen Christensen, Berkshire Publishing, “The Encyclopedia of Community” [presented by Bill Metcalf]
(C) Idealization in Contemporary Communities West Church
Chair: Kate Adamson, Twin Oaks
Tim Hodgdon, Duke University, “Ideological Work: Adaptation & Change in Gender
Relations at a Sixties Commune”
Laird Schaub, Fellowship for Intentional Communities
Kate Adamson and Valerie Renwick-Porter, Twin Oaks
Break & Refreshments, Amana Church 10:30 - 11:00 a.m.
Session V 11:00 a.m.- 12:30 p.m.
(A) A World of Communities Auditorium
Chair: Bill Metcalf, Griffith University (Australia)
Sol Encel, University of New South Wales (Australia), “Montsalvat: An Artist’s
Commune”
Chris Coates, (England), “Abode of Love: Free Love in 19th-Century Somerset”
Chuck LeWarne, Edmonds, Washington, “Utopias in My Little Corner of the
World: Communal Experiences in the American Pacific Northwest”
(B) Community: Practice and Change East Church
Chair: Lyman Tower Sargent
Cassandra Amesley, Iowa State Univ., “Communities Writ Small: Collective
Visions in Late Capitalist Society”
Jan Bang, Solborg Camphill Village (Norway), “Camphill: Social Ecology in
Practice”
(C) Communities and the Future West Church
Chair: Yuval Dror, Tel Aviv University, Oranim & Yad Tabenkin
Don Pitzer, University of Southern Indiana, and Rachel Wright-Summerton,
Padanaram, “Padanaram Settlement in Transition: Ongoing Developmental
Process”
Caitlin Didier, University of Kansas, “If You Build It, They Will Come: Vedic City and the Future of Transcendental Meditation in Fairfield, Iowa”
Michael Livni, Kibbutz Lotan, “Kibbutz and Its Future: Historical Perspective”
Lunch on your own 12:30 - 2:00 p.m. (see registration packet for dining suggestions)
Session VI 2:00 - 3:30 p.m.
(A) Community in Europe Auditorium
Chair: Jan Bang, Solborg Camphill Village
Ina Meyer-Stoll, ZEGG (Germany), “Global Ecovillage Network: A Slide
Presentation”
Lepre Viola, Damanhur (Italy), “The Federation of Damanhur”
Jan Bang, Solborg Camphill Village (Norway), “Camphill Villages”
(B) Economics East Church
Chair: Gina Walker, University of Southern Indiana
Diana Leafe Christian, Earthaven Ecovillage (North Carolina, USA), “Sustainable
Economics in Ecovillages and Intentional Communities.”
Jonathan Warner, Dordt College, “Community Money and Coherence of Community: The Stamp Scrip Scheme of Charles Zylstra”
Kate Adamson and Valerie Renwick-Porter, Twin Oaks (Louisa, Virginia, USA) “Drifting Ideals? Liberalization and Privatization in and Egalitarian, Income-Sharing Community”
(C ) Creating Community West Church
Chair: Chris Coates
Elph Morgan, “Steps in Creating a Cohousing Community: A Case Study of Sunward and Great Oak Cohousing”
Valerie Seitz and Machiel Van Dorst, Delft University of Technology (Netherlands),
“Transformation of Qualities of Communal Life: The New Plans for Eco-
village Almere, NL”
Achim Ecker, ZEGG (Germany), “ZEGG Community: Creating a Community
Involves Creating a Whole Region!”
(D) Walking Tour of Middle Amana
Sign up for tour at the registration table. Meet at Amana Heritage Museum to car-pool to Middle Amana.
Break & Refreshments, Amana Church 3:30 - 4:00 p.m.
Plenary III: Closing Address Auditorium, 4:00 - 5:30 p.m.
Moderator: Bill Metcalf, Griffith University
Yaacov Oved, Yad Tabenkin & Tel Aviv University,
“Communes and Intentional Communities as a Global Phenomenon”
Commentary: Don Pitzer, Center for Communal Studies, University of Southern Indiana
Social Hour and Closing Banquet, Colony Inn Restaurant, 6:30 p.m.
Entertainment and social hour to follow dinner
Last Updated: 6/3/04